I'm gonna call it Twitter even harder now.
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2023
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i'm going to stop calling it twitter when twitter.com redirects to x.com, and not the other way around
at that point i would stop talking about it, because X is just too stupid
His obsession with the letter X is like that middle school kid who used to talk about how many girlfriends he got and how good he is at being a bad ass...
Basically, he's a less likeable version of Zane from Hypnospace Outlaw.
He's a wannabe Steve Jobs who has chased his own one letter legacy for 30 years, pathetic.
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Iβve said it before and Iβll say it again. If you want him to fail, help him destroy Twitterβs brand.
Call it X.
I has worse brand recognition, terrible brand loyalty, and if only highlights that the product has changed for the worse.
my little bit is to say "what's twitter?" (sigh, alright then... X) "...what's X?"
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I'm sorry, but due to cultural norms the name Twitter is rooted deep within our modern language.
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[PERSUASION] Maybe a free little blue check will do the trick
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Or what?
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[INTIMIDATION] drop your daughter's dead name and I'll drop your site's.
- [THE DARK URGE] Imagine feeding Elon to a large flightless bird.
Narrator: You imagine throwing a burlap sack over his head. His underlings would be extremely displeased with you, but he wouldn't put up much of a fight himself.
Narrator: You can think of someone who would be extremely pleased with your offering, however.
Elon: You're looking at me funny. Is there something you need?
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[THE DARK URGE] Give in to your desires.
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[PERSUASION] I have an investment opportunity that I think you would be interested in.
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Can I see your wares?
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No, nothing. I was just lost in thought.
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*roll a nat 20
"Get fucked, shitbird. I didn't buy your bullshit even when people thought you were techno Jesus."
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The only thing that gets me hard is billionaires not getting their way.
So when you win the Powerball you'll have to be a masochist to fuck?
I mean...im already a masochist when i fuck so...I...I really don't know how we got here to be perfectly honest.
If I win the Powerball I'll be able to afford a good Dom.
Now the real paradox: if I can only cum when billionaires can't get their way but I'm a billionaire and my mistress denies me orgasm, what happens? Does the universe implode on itself?
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The problem is, is that if you engage with anyone outside of the internet, they have no fucking idea what you're talking about when you call it "X".
It's so fucking stupid of a name. Even worse than Facebook changing to Meta.
You can ask people to call it "X" all day, every day, but you can't just change the name of your brand/product to a single letter, that people use every day for other things, and expect it to work out for you.
Facebook the product is still Facebook. The only name that changed was that of the company that owns Facebook, which makes sense as that holding company also runs other products like Instagram.
Google made a similar move in 2015 when it created Alphabet to hold the non Google parts of Google.
In both cases the renaming was on the coorporate side. They made no effort to loose the old trademark, and continue to operate under it today.
The only high profile case that comes to mind that is simmilar to Twitter is when Comcast rebranded itself as Xfinity in 2010. In that case, it worked because: A) Comcasts reputation was way worse than Twitters and B) people don't have that much of an option anyway. In the otherhand, the rebranding failed in the sense that everyone still knows them as Comcast.
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In defense of Zuckerberg -- and there's something I never thought I'd say -- they changed the name of the company so that they could introduce new brands. They were not dumb enough to rebrand the successful products. It's just now Facebook by Meta.
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When I go to x.com I end up on twitter.com
So Elon says it's π but my browser still says it's Twitter
Wonder how much money he blew on that domain only to not even make it the canonical one.
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Funnier yet, when you go to https://π.com you also end up on x.com which redirects to twitter.com.
That's funny, when I do it I end up on nitter.net
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I'm so tired of these woke CEOs and their snowflake whining over misgendering their companies. There's the name that a company is assigned at birth, and I'll be damned if I'm going to change the way I've always called them (for my whole life and ALL of god-fearing Christian history) because some liberal snowflake CEO one-day wakes up and simply declares, "twitter is now X" ffs.
The facts of the ~~birth~~ incorporation certificate, DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS little pissant mUsK... GET OVER IT!
/s since satire is dead.
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Image Transcription:
X post by user The Chaser @chaser reading: 'Stop calling it Twitter' says guy who deadnames his own child. Underneath is a photo of Elon Musk's face with a barely visible Tesla logo in the background and the link to the article at chaser.com.au
[I am a human, if Iβve made a mistake please let me know. Please consider providing alt-text for ease of use. Thank you. π]
Good human.
Thank you, fellow human! π€
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Legend says if you say Twitter 13 times inside of a Tesla at 4:20am, Elon Musk will appear inside the car
More likely that the autopilot kicks in, locks the doors, and drives into a lake.
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X is a fucking stupid name
No, X is a letter. But it doesn't matter what you call a shitty product, it's still a shitty product. I'll also keep calling it twitter.
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Sure Elon, I can provide this service to you for just $8/month. It's great value honestly, I have expenses to continue to run my life and just $8 will happily contribute towards that.
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lol so funny this guy thinks we're just gonna stop calling it Twitter
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No. I'm exercising my Musk-given right of ultimate free speech and will continue calling it Twitter, just because I feel like it. Musk would be proud of me standing up against censorship. Oh wait..
... And all of this could have been avoided if he just renamed it "Twitter by X", so make Twitter part of the X super-app that he wanted to build.
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I could call it that but then nobody would know what the fuck I'm talking about. Maybe at least pick a name that's unique?
Yep. One of many reasons I'm not catering to the whims of a billionaire and calling it what he wants it to be called. It's going to continue to be Twitter as far as I'm concerned.
... hold on this mf has TEN kids
which... one? we're not talking about Grime's baby are we?
Nope, Vivian Jenna Wilson, Musk's adult daughter who changed her name and disowned him because of how he treated her as a trans person. Imagine how awful that must be to disassociate yourself from the richest man in the world.
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Damn, I've been doing it wrong! I thought X was pronounced TEN.
#twitter sucks.
It could be "Xitter" Pronounced "Shitter" and the hashtag is now a fashtag.
Copied from elsewhere...I am not original.
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"i'm so sick of this annoying guy" say people who won't stop thinking or talking about this annoying guy.
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No. In fact we should continue to make fun of it. It's stupid. Twitter was a hellsite before Elon. Now it's dying due to his stupid decisions. He's foing the things I used to joke about doing if i owned a website
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